Current position
Assistant Professor -ricercatore a tempo determinato “senior”- (lettera b) dell'art. 24 comma 3 della L. 240/2010) at the Department of Law, University of Brescia (BS) – Italy.

Education
PhD in economic sociology (2014). Dissertation title: “Towards a quantitative sociology of finance: investors, networks and online communities” University of Brescia, Brescia (Italy). Supervisor: Prof. F. Squazzoni, University of Milan.

Recent publications
1. Casnici N. and Castellani M. (2021), “Finanza in azienda e azienda in finanza: il caso del distretto manifatturiero bresciano”, in Stato e Mercato, 2/2021, pp. 271-307
2. Paus A. and Casnici N. (2021), “Interpersonal cooperation in illegal markets. The case of human smuggling organisations in the North of Italy, in Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 3/2021, pp. 701-731
3. Castellani M, Alengoz L, Casnici N., Squazzoni F. (2021), “A role-game laboratory experiment on the influence of country prospects reports on investment decisions in two artificial organizational settings”, in Mind and Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-021-00283-3
4. Casnici N, Albertini S., Castellani M. (2020), “Features shaping second-level bargaining: The case of the Brescian industrial system”, in Studi Organizzativi, 2/2020, pp. 9-35.
5. Pierpaolo Dondio, Niccolò Casnici, Francisco Grimaldo, Nigel Gilbert, Flaminio Squazzoni (2019), “The “invisible hand” of peer review: The implications of author-referee networks on peer review in a scholarly journal”, in JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, Volume 12(2), pp. 708-716.
6. Casnici N. (2019), “Investitori in rete. Finanza non professionale nell’era del Web”, Aracne Editrice, Roma.

Patents and inventions
Niccolò Casnici and Pierpaolo Dondio: "Buzz marketing and social media: how to increase the reliability of online reviews". Italian patent n° 1424673, November 2016.